The Republic of Signar is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Director with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.193 billion Signarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greyport. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Signarian economy, worth 726 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 173,191 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly, shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned, women have a strange proclivity for dressing up as caped weasels, and heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Signar's national animal is the parrot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Solism.

Signar is ranked 234,417^th in the world and 4,327^th in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.16 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.